even more quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a new rolling new york times thread

"subsidized" is the wrong word, but there actually is a legit "lucky ducky" phenomenon in NYC wrt rent-control/rent-stabilization, because it's not based on income at all, so there really are a lot of mid or high income people who have lucked into rent-controlled or rent-stabilized housing.

but if that guy means section 8 or public housing projects, then yeah he's a fucking moron, but that's apparent anyway

anyway it seems like the biggest problem with this reasoning is that the price of dalfour fruit spread or whatever bullshit (does anyone actually really buy that?) is not really a major factor in your cost of living, whereas your housing is. So even if you can get a handful of luxury goods cheaper in NYC (which I don't even really believe since there are so many other factors driving UP prices of goods here), your major costs would be much higher, and the difference between housing in NYC and, idk Little Rock, is going to overwhelm any savings on organic chicken.

And you couldn't think the NYT could somehow top itself when it comes to Brooklyn and Williamsburg.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/fashion/williamsburg.html

Do note the headline.

Billyburg, trucker cap, skinny jeans,The Strokes, PBR, Union Pool, Sparks, vegan, free-range tofu, "originally from Boston", Vassar, SVA, Pratt, Barnard, Oberlin, Sarah Lawrence, Greenpoint, Bushwick, and the "other" other hoods, X of the word "iron", "art loft", X = the ,urg, ther hoothStrts (non-Western), booth" otcap, skinny jeans,The Strokes, PBR, Union Pookes, = the new Williamsburg (aka Billyburg), offensol, Sparks, dively incorrect usePirBR, Union Poarks, diveat shoes Billybs, X = the nrucker vegtofu Greenpoint, Bushwick, w L train, trust funds, track bikest use, plaid shol, Sp, "origand ew Williamsburg (aka sively incorrec of the worad n", "art loft", X = tneinally from Boston", Vassar, SVA, Pratt, Barnarde "other" Billyburg), offenotcaerp, skinny jeans,The an, "irofree-rnge , Oberlin, Sarah Lawrencehe new L train, trust funds, track bikes, plaid shirts (non-Western), boat shoes

-- burt_stanton, Sunday, March 16, 2008

RIP Sparks

I sort of wish Joan Didion, but like young Joan Didion, had just come in and written the definitive essay about Williamsburg several years ago. There's probably a good essay to be written about it, or was, but no one seems to be able to avoid being captain obvious about it

like, somebody say something interesting about brooklyn by now, please, somebody make an observation that goes beyond facial hair, or that connects the trends to something other than buzzwords of the moment. It's like it's 1974 and the Times is still going "I observed that they seem to have long hair and wear peace signs and protest things"

i think it's too late for a thing like that to be written. nobody is unfamiliar with hipsters now. they're just people. i'm not sure there are observations to be made about "hipsters" per se.

individual strains within "hipster" culture -- like the local food movement, like the boom in artisanal products, like the (sort of) mainstreaming 19th century kitsch -- could be subjects for discussion. "hipster" as a category is too broad. it refers to everyone by now i think.

also williamsburg is a more diverse neighborhood than articles like that allow. lots of stuff goin' on there, lots of different kinds of people. it doesn't seem interesting to me that many of them dress similarly.

Once you read the author's Twitter feed it all makes sense. Too much sense.

https://twitter.com/henryalford

individual strains within "hipster" culture -- like the local food movement, like the boom in artisanal products, like the (sort of) mainstreaming 19th century kitsch

not sure those are the best examples of different strains - with some variance in the locavore thing, those are all pretty tied in together

hm, well i guess there are aesthetic and political components of the same basic sort of back to basics ethos.

which is itself pretty different than the ironic appropriation movement or w/e that characterized hipsterism earlier in the decade. maybe those were sloppy examples i listed above, but i still think that a broad swatch of contradictory things fall under the banner of "hipsterdom" so it's not really a useful concept.

An article is roundly mocked and trashed. Solution -- retitle it!

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/fashion/williamsburg.html?src=me&ref=general

That's not much of an improvement.

What was the previous title?

Will.i.amsburg

Oh my God, that dude's twitter feed is the worst/honestly no worse than most me-me-me-look-at-me twitter feeds.

i'm going to a party in williamsburg today. i plan to make a big fucking deal out of the people there i consider "hipsters," act like some sort of bemused ethnographer, alienate everyone, and write a piece about my experience for the new york times. wish me luck.

a shiny sacagawea dollar says that you'll encounter nothing more than sighs and "this again?" from the mustachio'd hordes

alford did a good job of looking like a narc in that photo

Bedfoprd Avenue, as stated in an earlier correction

individual strains within "hipster" culture -- like the local food movement, like the boom in artisanal products, like the (sort of) mainstreaming 19th century kitsch -- could be subjects for discussion. "hipster" as a category is too broad. it refers to everyone by now i think.

― rock 'em sock 'em (Treeship), Wednesday, May 1, 2013 11:35 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Preliminary, not-yet-satisfying steps in this subcategorization: http://www.refinery29.com/hipster-handbook

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/magazine/is-avenues-the-best-education-money-can-buy.html?pagewanted=1&ref=general&src=me&_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/us/washington-dc-gardeners-battle-flower-thief.html

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2013/05/01/flower-thief-returns-to-foil-the-new-york-times/

The New York Times writer has been working on this story idea since June 2012. She's tenacious

“It was too far outside my comfort zone,” said one friend, an accomplished cook who has stuffed many a zucchini.

Fried chicken on a biscuit with hot sauce and honey butter — as served at Pies N Thighs in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is the perfect meal, especially for someone embarking on a juice cleanse the next day.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/dining/making-fried-chicken-with-confidence.html

"It was compiled by that dude in the Black Flag T-shirt under an untucked, unsnapped cowboy shirt."

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/pixel.gif

shit sorry forgot they don't let you steal slide show pics from nyt. anyway, picture of a guy wearing a joy division t-shirt. i thought it was funny anyway.

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/05/08/dining/20130508-REST-3.html

http://i.imgur.com/tbQwd4o.png

billionaire.com is so exclusive it won't even load right on my computer

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/nyregion/illicit-nightclub-in-a-chelsea-water-tower.html

i know people who were at that
oh me so quiddy

you so forky

is that a quid ag? lol at the hat tho.

was gonna say that the people i know who went to that wouldn't be wearing fedoras and then i remembered they very well might

trilbys and homburgs of the leisure class

in another article I was SHOCKED to read Amanda Palmer played there

i um.. i might have helped get amanda palmer get booked to headline the coney island mermaid parade benefit

x-post to water tower

At one table, a first date was in progress. Chelsea Cammarota, 35, explained that she and her date did not know each other well. “He sent me a photo of a clock,” she recounted. “I said, ‘I’ve seen a lot of Law and Order.'” Nevertheless, her date, Steve Showalter, told her, “We’re going to do something fun.” But he was clueless, too, running on blind faith in the friend who had given him the watch.

lol oops, really misread "clock" and was all "she cannot be serious- oh"

that would have been "I’ve seen a lot of Law and Order SVU"

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/nyregion/as-boozy-invaders-hit-beach-hamptons-sound-snooki-alert.html

yeah, i also thought of this thread immediately

I like the phrase "boozy invaders" -- I think I would choose it as a name for a kickball team or something

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